TeX and Typography

Playing card suits: \diamondsuit, \heartsuit, \spadesuit, \clubsuit.

Google Noto Fonts google.com/get/noto/ ('NO more TOfu', i.e. missing Unicode characters)

Use \input{filename} to insert filename.tex. Works like the #include preprocessor directive in C.

How to link to web pages from a LaTeX-generated PDF file johndcook.com/blog/2008/11/2…

Spanish punctuation: Can use !` and ?` for inverted exclamation points and question marks.

How to put PDF properties in a LaTeX file johndcook.com/blog/2008/11/2…

Low dots \ldots, centered dots \cdots, vertical dots \vdots, diagonal dots \ddots.

Registered trademark symbol: \textregistered

The package subfig works with figures broken into subfigures ctan.org/pkg/subfig

A LaTeX typesetting game texnique.xyz

Use \overline to put a line on top of a symbol. For example, $\overline{z}$ is $z$ conjugate.

Use math mode for all math symbols. See mistake #4 johndcook.com/blog/2010/02/1…

The symbol for perpendicular is $\perp$. Knuth recommends using this symbol to indicate that two numbers are relatively prime.

Some problems with eqnarray and alternatives. tug.org/pracjourn/2006… [pdf]

When you change a character in a LaTeX file, what happens to the size of the compiled PDF? johndcook.com/blog/2026/05/0…

\P produces a pilcrow, the backward P symbol for paragraph

Accented letters in TeX, HTML, and MS Word johndcook.com/blog/accented_…

\copyright produces the copyright symbol ©

Typesetting music with LilyPond. johndcook.com/blog/2009/03/1…

If a table is too long for a page, try the xltabular package. ctan.org/pkg/xltabular